Framework
Five families of financial ratios
The question it answers
Before lending to or investing in a firm, which families of ratios should a finance manager read its financial statements through to judge whether it is healthy or weak?
- Origin
- Elliott and Elliott, 2019
- Diagram type
- Hub diagram
- Level of analysis
- Firm

Diagram
Five families of financial ratios
Financial health
Profitability
Efficiency
Liquidity
Solvency
Market prospects
Sources
References
Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.
- Elliott, B. and Elliott, J. (2019) Financial Accounting and Reporting, 19th edn. Harlow: Pearson.No DOISource page